Because it proves that oil and coal production does not need millions of years of time.FordPrefect said:Dear ..., here we go again. Scientists can also generate magnetism without the use of the earth's core, who the bleep cares?
True, it's not technically under natural conditions. However, the scientists did replicate the conditions that oil and coal are produced in nature in the lab.Mechanical Bliss said:If it's done in the lab, it's not under natural conditions, now is it? Oil formation depends on the organic matter to actually exist, grow, die and be overlain by sediments to create high pressures and temperatures, and weathering and erosion take a great amount of time. Furthermore, oil formation has nothing to do with evolutionary biology so throwing around the term "evolutionists" is misleading and irrelevant.
And while it's not a major aspect of evolution, it does take away one of the arguments for old-earth supporters- that the earth needs to be old, or else how could oil and coal form?
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